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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 2h

Oh you figured out signing?? How painful was it? I had read horror stories and so I haven't even gone down that path yet.

Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 9d

A kid at school gets $50 per tooth

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 13d

NEW COLORS!!

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 14d

the thing about asking for a worker owned anything on the web is that the pitch has to account for the fact that the website is going to - innately - be slower to add features, slower to respond to issues, have financial struggles, etc

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 22d

At new parent class they taught us "No good babies, just unobservant babies. It makes sense to cry, what they're going through."

I think about that a lot these days.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 25d

but the corner radius is still way off and consequently looks awkward even if they're not centered

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 25d

I guess this is the "approved" approach to solving this problem? leave a bunch of white space at the bottom of scroll bars?

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 25d

what are we doing here folks

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 17

Check out a short gameplay video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A19R...

RECLAIMER — gameplay and tactics guide

YouTube video by Drew Harry

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Drew Harry

Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 15

RECLAIMER
a tactical roguelike

drewww.itch.io/reclaimer

Use your dash to pause time and establish the perfect attack, pushing enemies into walls to conserve ammo.

Escape with as much loot as you can!

@roguetemple.bsky.social #14drl #gamedev

Video game screenshot. Tile-based game, high contrast black and white with three red enemies surrounding a green player character. One of the enemies is targeting the player, with a line of red tiles indicating they are about to shoot.

Video game screenshot. Tile-based game, high contrast black and white. The player is next to a "stairs" tile, and orange explosion tiles surround them. They have three weapons -- cyclone, pistol, and shotgun.

Video game screenshot. Screen titled "RESUPPLY." A range of items are available -- bullets, a shotgun, and services like "heal all", "health +1", "energy +1", "recharge +1"

Black background, white and red text.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 16

are you thinking this is made visible to the player? or a dynamic that you might intuit because enemies seem to sense you around corners?

makes me curious also about scent management... could you mask your scent and sneak through an area with smelling enemies?

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 16

RECLAIMER — gameplay and tactics guide

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A19R...

There are some cool spatial mechanics at work in RECLAIMER that can really improve your efficiency and boost your score.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 16

I have a weird love for UI elements like this, where it implies an exhaustive list of kinds of things you might want to do, but it's only two things.

Anything, and a very specific thing.

Then I wonder ... what else was on the team's list before they stopped working on the product entirely?

A screenshot of iMovie, showing the "create new" button with two kinds of things you can make: a movie, and a trailer.

Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 15

I'm proud of how those dynamics come together! There's real foresight and planning required. You can manipulate sight lines, play enemies off each other. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you run.

There's no output randomness. Enough input randomness to pose increasingly hard problems to a player.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 15

This has a more "traditional" rogue-like flavor than anything I've made to date. There's combat, there's a very explicit hunger clock, and there is a money/upgrades system with build variation.

The novelty here is (1) enemies telegraphing moves (like Into the Breach), and (2) a time-stopping dash.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 15

RECLAIMER
a tactical roguelike

drewww.itch.io/reclaimer

Use your dash to pause time and establish the perfect attack, pushing enemies into walls to conserve ammo.

Escape with as much loot as you can!

@roguetemple.bsky.social #14drl #gamedev

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 13

I've got a playable build of my #14drl game available here if anyone wants to give it a go and share some feedback! drewww.itch.io/reclaimer

#gamedev

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 8

Changing a ton of stuff at once and it's ... kinda working. Level gen is a mess. There ARE little moments that now start to feel fun / interesting / game-y. But the systems are also pretty baroque and I'm not sure how intelligible I can make it in time for the end of the jam.

#14drl #gamedev

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 7

Combat starting to feel like something here. I think maybe bots need to have more time between shots but it does feel like something.

Main weirdness is that weapon switching takes a turn right now which makes it hard to set up perfect shots. May make it instant.

#gamedev #14drl

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 7

oh it works for rockets too!

you can't tell which bot is shooting you, which is sort of annoying. but if I made a rocket trooper sprite, maybe it's obvious enough.

fun dynamic -- I could make bot rockets low damage, but the risk is you get pushed into a wall.

Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 7

Enemies shoot at you now. I was finding the zombie hordes coming at you to be a little too bland. Not sure about this, either, but it's ... something. Creates some chaos because bots will happily shoot each other.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 6

Added a ton of weapon juice. Animations, UI notifications when you are empty, when you reload, push animations, damage indicators, the works!

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · Sep 6

This action is looking to be vital to drive pressure. Monday's at 9am are hard, but if you can be there, please do. Spread the word to other who might be interested.

Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · Sep 5

This next Monday (the 8th), 9am, come to the emergency rally to save the state budget deal around Bay Area public transit. Civic Center Plaza, SF.

Governor Newsom needs to make good on his promise to the Bay Area.

Emergency Rally to Save Bay Area Transit

Alert alert! The transit agencies the Bay Area depends on – BART, Muni, AC Transit, and Caltrain – face massive service cuts unless Governor Gavin Newsom follows through on his promise of a $750M emer...

actionnetwork.org

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · Sep 6

Shotgun is probably too good.